Disappointing day, flat all over the place and delivery into the f50 was poor.

At the end of the day people were speculating what round Goodwin would lose his job this season, we’re going into the bye with 2 losses

Little rest and hopefully a kick Up the backside for the players. Get Viney and BBB into the team and we go again. 

I knew this would happen, I just knew it. 

That was their grandfinal, and we didnt show up. 

 

 

Flat, flat, flat.

Never looked likely today. Countless players down on form. A slight throwback to previous years with players like Oliver and Petracca trying too hard and getting caught instead of taking the first option.

Kudos to JJ and Jackson who tried hard all day.

Credit to Collingwood. Pressure was outstanding for the whole game.

Kiss top 2 goodbye I suspect

Flat over the entire ground. 

Selfish mid-field led by Trac and Oliver whose continual free choice not to give first option but go for the glory ball rears its ugly head from time to time. 

And I've got an idea! Kick it long to Fritsch verses 2 tall players ALL day.

3 minutes ago, Redleg said:

They wouldn’t go near him off today’s game.

But he was one of their best players!

I can stomach a loss if the effort is there

Seems like we drank a bit of our own kool aid and didnt' switch on 

Weed has to go ASAP

He isn't up to it and we need BBB in 

 

You know they were going to come out for Buckley. The players must understand that and still they weren't switched on. So much talent and yet so dumb at time. 

Disgusted

Lost at selection

That stings. 

The absolute arrogance of thinking we could carry Weid thinking he'd magically turn good .For all BBB does wrong there's one thing he does constantly and that's kick goals. 

Two weeks to savour that performance now. [censored]. 

 

My 2 observations:

1. If I was Buckley, I’d be furious. Where has that level of intensity been for them all year? I’ve seen a fair bit of their footy and their tackling intensity and ball use was horrific. They choose when to go, and it was us unfortunately. 

2. We looked very flat all game. Not clean, constantly fumbling, and not bringing our team mates into the game with first options. I don’t mind if the press come for us now. We need a rocket, and 2 weeks to reset and focus on what we want to be.

Scoreboard flattered us. That was a weak weak weak effort today.

Teams have worked us out now. Yes we’ve been able to grind out some great wind, but our defense has been worked out. Short kick and run to stop interceptions and we struggle.

Our leaders didn’t stand up today when they needed to. There was definitely air of can’t be bothered, can turn it on for 10 minutes later and win. Nup. Sorry. In this competition, no game is done until it’s done. Put in the effort or you’ll lose. Hopefully they learnt the lesson today and had the Hollywood [censored] knocked out of them. 

This is more like what have been dished up in the past - a lazy, insipid brain dead performance. Buckley out coached Goodwin comprehensively. 

3 minutes ago, Undeeterred said:

Oh come on. We’ve won 11 games for goodness sake. You can’t win every week it’s just not realistic. 

True. It’s not the loss, it’s the manner of the loss. Same as how we played vs North for a big chunk of the game. 

That was putrid, and people still wonder why we don’t all trust this team still. 

6 minutes ago, ProperDee said:

Weideman has gone down into the Collingwood rooms to practice the club song.

I'm not going to justify the way Weideman played today but our entire forward line was dysfunctional. It gave many memories of 2019, when we were dominating inside 50s but not taking any of our chances. Yes, Weideman needs to lift against Essendon if he keeps his spot but you can say the same about all the other forwards.

We got smashed out the middle. We really need Viney back. With him in today I think we would have won!

Poor effort all round. Another loss to a bottom side, god knows what we will look like after the bye. So miserable that we came out looking like this, could easily sense it coming. We are not contenders losing games like this.

8 minutes ago, ProperDee said:

Weideman has gone down into the Collingwood rooms to practice the club song.

They don’t have a need for a VFL standard player either

Weid out. Fritta, Kozzie, and Tommy were non existent. Spargo seemed the most lively but Quaynor was way too dominant. Our forwards really were so far off the pace. 

Meanwhile our much loved midfield was absolutely beaten, Pies still have some quality (which would be frustrating if you were a Pies fan) and they stepped up. Petracca (aside from a couple of good cameo moments) wasn’t close to 50% of his best, Oliver was well held and clearly roughed up through the match. Gawn had an up and down game but aside from his 3rd quarter would rate his day as very average. 

LJ was the only player I’d say gave an effort all game, he’s definitely got a special quality to him.

I know they’re different types of players but boy you put him next to Weid and you just have to shake your head. I don’t write players off but Weid is now at the bottom of the BBB/M Brown/Weid pack after that pathetic performance. 

The whole footy world has been waiting for the “old Melbourne”. On one of our biggest days of the year they returned, but here’s the good news: they players have two weeks to stew and be ****ed about it. Return after the bye breathing fire, I have a feeling the media will be loving this. 

Edited June 14, 20213 yr by Pates

Obviously our worst game for a long time.

Nothing we did today resembled our 11-1 start. We were slow, fumbly, unstructured, second to the ball, lazy. You have to think there's something wrong with how we approach and/or prepare for games against weak sides. Our worst games for the year have all been against bottom 4 sides - our two losses were to sides who, at the time, were in the bottom 4, and our next two worst games were against North and Hawthorn. 

Old habits returned. We were +7 in inside 50s but -7 for scoring shots.

An indefensible game from Weideman. That change must be made. We cannot carry players as awful as that, particularly in our forward line. Petty was horrendous in the first half on Mihocek which forced us to switch Lever over, but that wrecked our back half structure as Lever couldn't peel off.

The game was there to be won for us in the third quarter. We had all the momentum and all the inside 50s, but the three goals we kicked wasn't enough. How many times did Brayshaw get it on the near-side flank but kick it on his left? Low percentage stuff that we couldn't afford. And then TMac's third quarter miss from dead in front was a momentum shifter - would have put us a goal in front and would have been our fourth straight goal in that quarter, but from that miss they kicked 5.3 to our 2.4.

It's easy to panic and throw the baby out with the bathwater, but we're 11-2 so it's not exactly a disaster. After the Carlton win when we hit 9-0 we knew we had a tough month, so to come out of it 2-2 isn't a bad result. It's also better to drop these games to bottom sides rather than to our competitors: If we had to go 2-2, it's better this way than the other way.

I’m disappointed and yet not in the least surprised. For a team that has achieved absolutely nothing, to pick and choose when to turn up to games and when not to turn up just shows our immaturity. We have come on in leaps and bounds this year, but teams with no killer instinct don’t win flags.
We’ve cruised to too many mediocre wins over bottom teams and have now lost twice due to coming out flat and expecting to win. We barely lifted out of first gear even in the second half. 
This loss will probably cost us a top 2 finish. I hope that burns them. 
A terrible ending to another depressing weekend in the city of Covid. 

Edited June 14, 20213 yr by Jaded

Also I never want us to play at the SCG again outside of away games vs Sydney.

3 minutes ago, Lord Travis said:

Scoreboard flattered us. That was a weak weak weak effort today.

Teams have worked us out now. Yes we’ve been able to grind out some great wind, but our defense has been worked out. Short kick and run to stop interceptions and we struggle.

Our leaders didn’t stand up today when they needed to. There was definitely air of can’t be bothered, can turn it on for 10 minutes later and win. Nup. Sorry. In this competition, no game is done until it’s done. Put in the effort or you’ll lose. Hopefully they learnt the lesson today and had the Hollywood [censored] knocked out of them. 

Geelong, Brisbane and the Bulldogs, AKA the rest of the top four, haven’t been able to. Or Richmond